Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 1208. Tacitus, Historiae Augustae, Basel, 1533, contemporary French or Flemish blind stamped calf with fore-edge decoration, Gómez Dávila y Toledo copy.

Tacitus, Historiae Augustae, Basel, 1533, contemporary French or Flemish blind stamped calf with fore-edge decoration, Gómez Dávila y Toledo copy

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TACITUS, PUBLIUS CORNELIUS. P. Cornelii Taciti equitis romani Annalium ab excessu augusti sicut ipse vocat, sive Historiae Augustae, qui vulgo receptus titulus est, libri sedecim qui supersunt, partim haud oscitanter perlecti, partim nempe posteriores ad exemplar manuscriptum recogniti magna fide nec minore iudicio per Beatum Rhenanum... Basel: Hieronymus I Froben & Nicolaus I Episcopus, 1533


This volume formed part of the Dávila y Toledo library, with its distinctive fore-edge decoration. For more information on this substantial library, see lot 1044 (Budé). Along with lot 1044, 1127 (Isocrates), 1188 (de Deutz), 1229 (Vegetius) and lot 1238 (Villalobos), this volume belonged to Gómez Dávila y Toledo.

Folio (312 x 212 mm). Roman and Greek type, marginalia in Italic, 50 lines plus headline. collation: aa-ff6 a-z6 A-V6: 294 leaves (V3-6 missigned but leaves bound in the correct order). Woodcut printer's device on title-page and final verso, woodcut initials, manuscript annotations in more than one unidentified hand. (Marginal dampstaining, ink stains to a3v, e4, h6v, g1v, and r1r, small tears to head of p6 and C6 and to foot of R6.)


binding: Later sixteenth century blind-stamped calf over pasteboards (322 x 234 mm), probably Spanish, broad lines at sides, forming frame containing roll of medallions, architectural structures, and leafy sprays, inner frame containing repeated flower tool, central panel with a single decorative tool, spine with 6 full and 2 half bands, early paper label in second compartment, late sixteenth-century fore-edge decoration, title lettered across fore-edge with armorials and leafy decoration, 2 braided clasps. (Binding somewhat worn, ends of spine and corners defective, upper hinge repaired, lacking upper free endpaper.)


provenance: Gómez Dávila y Toledo (1541-1616), arms on fore-edge — old shelfmark "Est. 29.Y" on title-page — [by family descent to] Vicente Joaquín Osorio de Moscoso (1744-1816), marqués de Astorga, printed label pasted to foot of title-page “Biblioteca del excmo. Señor Marques de Astorga”, sale, Delbergue-Cormont, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de son excellence le Marquis d’Astorga, Paris, 31 May-4 June 1870, lot 1071 — Maggs Bros, Catalogue 986: Ancient, mediaeval and modern, no. 17: Italy (London 1978), item 111 — Heribert Boeder (1928-2013), sale, Christie's, The Boeder Library, London, 17 June 2014, lot 187. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: VD16 T 13; USTC 681875

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